Self-Driving Cars Are Auto Industry’s Most ‘Disruptive Dynamic,’ Says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sees development of self-driving cars as perhaps the most “disruptive dynamic that's happening in the automotive industry,” he said on an earnings call. It's “almost impossible” to "imagine that in five years' time, a reasonably capable…
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car will not have autonomous capability at some level, and a very significant level at that,” he said Thursday. The challenge of tackling a commercially viable autonomous vehicle “is not a detection problem, it's an AI computing problem,” Huang said of artificial intelligence. It's not just about “detecting objects” on the road that will be key, he said. It’s more about learning the “perception of the environment around you,” and that will be one of the important breakthroughs from AI computing, he said. Another key is developing the “reasoning” that must take place in AI computing, including how to teach the computer “to take action based on that reasoning, and to be continuously learning,” Huang said.